Fitzgerald to Obama: Not So Fast

Thanks for the take KT. I your guess about the reasoning is the most likely.
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Although I must say your headline tricked me into thinking this would be more "questions and concerns" from MS.

The real question is how fast and how far the media will use this statement to bolster their meme that Obama has something to hide. I mean can't you just hear Joe Scarborough now? "Well obviously Fitzgerald doesn't want them to release the evidence because they are still investigating Rahm Emanuel"
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I say it takes all of 2 hours before that card gets played on FoxNews.
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We are officially in bizarro world

PNNTO
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Cue that post from Scherer in 5...4...3...2

Its on CNN right now.

I'm told it turned out to be "pretty milquetoast stuff.
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It's been pretty clear to most people, I think, that there's no there there, but people like Scherer and Juan Williams and Joe Scarborough are desperate to gin it up into a scandal, so the transition team had to waste a lot of time trying to prove a negative.
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and what sg said

If Obama wants to release information and Fitz wants him to hold off, can we now politely ask the people who've been fervently trying to pretend that Obama has been hiding something to STFU?

I want two things for Christmas:
A big ol' "F--k You!" to Michael Scherer for his breathless coverage of why Obama hadn't explained himself, and at least one blog post on the Senate Armed Services Committee report that traces prisoner abuse to Bush and the gang.

Your predicted meme is on CNN SG?

On que Rick Sanchez is framing it as something bad because they used the word "innappropriate". Damm I could have sworn that would mean that everything was above board. And of course the washington flack is pushing the whole "there are still questions that are going to be hanging over them" meme

Jim, FL- Juan Williams is pushing that stuff? Pathetic.

Insanity.

And TIME, do you want me to buy the Cartier or the Blackberry? Can't be both.

Karen - I'm baffled why the MSM (the theoretically Obamaphile MSM) has been willing to question Obama's conduct, but has had no stories that I can think of that question the Republicans' conduct: "Republicans trying to take Obama down a notch with scurrilous accusations." This would be a story for which there is actual evidence, as opposed to the stories implicating Obama in shady business over this.

Your headline implies that Obama was trying to get away with something, and Fitzgerald put a stop to it, in comparison to the headline over at Talking Points Memo: At Fitzgerald's Request, Obama Team Delays Release Of Blago Review

And this isn't going away. Either the Fitzgerald request will be omitted from discussion, or, as others have pointed out, the blathering heads on cable news will breathlessly speculate as to why Fitzgerald wants the report delayed: because, NO DOUBT, Obama is involved.

Cliff says:

at least one blog post on the Senate Armed Services Committee report that traces prisoner abuse to Bush and the gang.

Good luck with that.

Coffee - I can't stand it. These people might be more of a challenge to my will to charity now than they were during the Bush years.

@pourmecoffee
You'll recall that the top source on your insanity link is the same gentleman who first claimed knowlege of the Michelle Obama 'Whitey" tape. As soon as that turns up, I will reconsider his reliability as a source. Until then.........

Someone notify Rick Sanchez on CNN that the delay is because Fitz wants it. The "no inappropriate discussion" line made him think there may have been discussions. Well, no sh#$, Sherlock. It would have been bizarre if there hadn't been any discussions. He wonders what PEBO's definition of "inappropriate". Start the witch hunt.

Jay did a great job on MSNBC right now. Nora tried to rag on Obama re "is this transparent to delay, blah, blah, blah". Jay responded that the delay was at the request of Fitzgerald's office and that if the Obama camp doesn't want to impede the US Attorney office's investigation then they would do what was requested and hold off on the release until next week.

Thank you, Jay. Nice job but, damn, isn't it pathetic how both Rick and Nora tried to turn it into something bad re Obama. Just report the facts, please.

Once again, good job!

Anyone catch Mika and Joe acting the fools this morning? Manufacturing scandal seems to be cable news' main function.

My cable contract can't end soon enough (next month).

Is Carney already flacking? Even by the standards of the various and interchangeable animated department store mannequins who anchor MSNBC between Scarborough and Tweety, Norah O'Donnell is an idiot.
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Jim, FL- Juan Williams is pushing that stuff? Pathetic.
Yup, on NPR with Scott Simon, who seems to have a hard on against Obama, too.

Shorter wingnuts.

I saw this on Marc Ambinder and he says, "Obama will be on vacation that week and away from the prying eyes of press cameras."

For pete's sake, are some of these folks asking us to believe that a Republican AG would try and save Obama from embarrasment? Surely Fitzgerald's bosses would be eager to get some dirt on Obama out there if there was any.

BTW, Juan Williams was pushing this story hard on Fox News Sunday's panel discussion too.

He seemed very hard on Obama during the election. I'm not sure if he wants to prove he isn't in the tank for Obama because he is black or what, but he really went overboard during the election. Williams kept talking about how Obama never called on the black community to be responsible when in fact Obama gave numerous speeches on this.

lest we forget, the information that would be released by Obama would be spun to make team Obama look innocent regardless of whether there is something there or not.

Its also interesting to note how team Obama appears to "limit" the question -- its about " a review of Transition staff contacts" -- but not everyone who works for Obama is part of the "Transition staff"... and the capital T Transition staff didn't exist until after the election (a possibly crucial distinction, given reports of Rahm's discussions pre-election).

Making Rahm his CoS was a huge mistake -- Rahm has always been about selling the Democratic Party to the highest bidder, and any illusion that anyone might have had about Obama feeling beholden to all of those "small contributors" should have been shattered when Rahm was pretty much put in charge of everything. Its tough to believe that Obama is as pure as the driven snow when Rahm is his CoS (let alone his campaign co-chair, JJ Jr.'s, own ethical question marks....)

I saw this on Marc Ambinder and he says, "Obama will be on vacation that week and away from the prying eyes of press cameras."
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Fiendishly clever of Obama to plan a vacation in Hawaii at the totally random and unrelated-to-anything time of the last two weeks of December, one month before he takes on the world's most full time job. No one would ever go to Hawaii at Christmastime, especially if they were born there and have family and friends, without some hidden ulterior motive. Marc Ambinder is a brilliant and insightful person, and I wish to subscribe to his newsletter.